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Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 p.
Language
English
Description
J. T. Latham is rotting in prison in the Yuma Territory penitentiary. But then Sheriff Del Buchman offers to commute his sentence if Latham helps execute a prisoner exchange with some dangerous banditos. The only catch is that he must guide the sheriff through the deadly Sonoran Desert.
The story was adapted from surviving transcripts of the American Legends Collection, which were written in 1936 as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
499 p.
Language
English
Description
The Poacher's Daughter is an extraordinary story of betrayal and redemption, set within an uncompromising landscape of raw brutality and unimaginable beauty. It is a novel you won't soon forget.
In 1885, young Rose Edwards is widowed by Montana vigilantes who hang her husband for an alleged theft, then burn her Yellowstone Valley cabin to the ground as a warning for her and others of her kind to quit the territory. Penniless and illiterate, yet fiercely...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 p.
Language
English
Description
Wil Chama was interviewed in 1938 as a contributor to the American Legends Collection, a part of the Federal Writers' Project. Speaking into an Edison Dictaphone he narrated the events of his life. His personal narrative included his involvement as a strike breaker in what became known as the Gunnison Affair. It was as a result of this shameful episode that he gained his reputation as a gunman and sought to bury himself as a driver of a salt wagon...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
216 p.
Language
English
Description
A son sets out to make things right and avenge his father's death in this dark Western noir. Ethan Wilder has been off in the mountains hunting for the last several months. Upon his return to the family Bar Five Ranch, Wilder finds his life in chaos. His brother, Ben, after taking his father's rifle without permission, has locked his father in the outhouse to avoid punishment. Another brother, Vic, is in jail, accused of beating up a girl in town,...
6) Villa lobos
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 p.
Language
English
Description
"Sergeant Andrew Cade and seven troopers are hard on the trail of the Hollister Gang, determined to free a trio of women Ben Hollister and his men have taken captive after a raid on the town of Rio Largo, Texas. Crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico should have guaranteed the outlaws' safety. But they hadn't counted on the iron-tough sergeant's determination to finish his mission. Meanwhile, in Mexico, José Yanez and his Hunters have just massacred...
7) Charlie Red
Author
Series
American Legends Collection volume Book 5
Publisher
Five Star Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
237 p.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gil Ryan is nearly dead from starvation and hypothermia when he stumbles into the little mountain town of Larkspur just ahead of a blizzard. Owing his life to a kindly doctor and a widowed mother, Gil soon finds himself drawn into a bloody range war between the Ensillado Basin|s largest rancher and the small homesteaders who have begun squeezing into the valley. Gil wants no part of the trouble about to descend upon the Basin, but he won|t turn his...
Author
Series
American Legends Collection volume 6
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First editon.
Physical Desc
241 p.
Language
English